WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate leaders agreed Jan. 22 to
hold votes this week on a pair of proposals to reopen federal agencies still
affected by the longest (partial) shutdown in history. It’ll be a reckoning for
some senators: Side with President Trump or vote to temporarily end the
shutdown and keep negotiating. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) set up
the showdown votes for Jan. 24, one day before about 800,000 federal workers
are due to miss a second paycheck. One vote will be on Trump’s offer to trade
border wall funding for temporary protections for some immigrants. It has already
been rejected by Democrats. The second vote is set for a bill approved by the
Democrat-controlled House that would reopen the government through Feb. 8, but
no wall money, to give bargainers time to talk. (Source: The AP
01/22/19)
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